LEADER 04235cam 2200565 i 4500001 ssj0002327381 003 WaSeSS 005 20240512155341.0 006 m d 007 cr n 008 200327s2020 nyuab sb 001 0 eng d 010 2019047217 020 9780197507735 |q(hardback) 020 |z9780197507759 |q(epub) 020 |z9780197507766 035 (WaSeSS)ssj0002327381 040 DLC |beng |cDLC |dDLC |dWaSeSS 042 pcc 043 a-io---e-ne---e-uk--- 049 EREENEHH 050 00 DS642 |b.G36 2020 082 00 959.8/021 |223 100 1 Games, Alison, |d1963- 245 10 Inventing the English massacre |h[electronic resource] : |bAmboyna in history and memory / |cAlison Games. 246 30 Amboyna in history and memory 260 New York, NY : |bOxford University Press, |c[2020] 300 xiv, 300 pages : |billustrations, maps ; |c24 cm 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 From Competition to Conspiracy -- The Amboyna Business -- Inventing the Amboyna Massacre -- The Reckoning -- Domesticating Amboyna -- Legacies: Reinvention and the Linchpin of Empire -- Epilogue The First English Massacre. 506 Available only to authorized users. 520 "This book explains how a conspiracy trial featuring English, Japanese, and Indo-Portuguese co-conspirators who allegedly plotted against the Dutch East India Company in the Indian Ocean in 1623 produced a diplomatic crisis in Europe and became known for four centuries in British culture as the Amboyna Massacre. The story of the transformation of this conspiracy into a massacre is a story of Anglo-Dutch relations in the seventeenth century and of a new word in the English language, massacre. The English East India Company drew on this new word to craft an enduring story of cruelty, violence, and ingratitude. Printed works--both pamphlets and images--were central to the East India Company's creation of the massacre and to the story's tenacity over four centuries as the texts and images were reproduced during conflicts with the Dutch and internal political disputes in England. By the eighteenth century, the story emerged as a familiar and shared cultural touchstone. By the nineteenth century, the Amboyna Massacre became the linchpin of the British Empire, an event that historians argued well into the twentieth century had changed the course of history and explained why the British had a stronghold in India. The broad familiarity with the incident and the Amboyna Massacre's position as an early and formative violent event turned the episode into the first English massacre. It shaped the meaning of subsequent acts of violence, and placed intimacy, treachery, and cruelty at the center of massacres in ways that endure to the present day."-- |cProvided by publisher. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web 610 20 Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie |xHistory |y17th century. 610 20 East India Company |xHistory |y17th century. 650 0 Amboyna Massacre, Indonesia, 1623. 650 0 Ambon Island (Indonesia) |xHistory. 651 0 Netherlands |xRelations |zGreat Britain. 651 0 Great Britain |xRelations |zNetherlands. 655 0 Electronic books. 710 2 Oxford University Press. 856 40 |zFull text available from Oxford Scholarship Online History |uhttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https%3A%2F%2Facademic.oup.com%2Fbook%2F40553 856 40 |zFull text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |uhttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https%3A%2F%2Facademic.oup.com%2Fbook%2F40553 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hJOYNER188 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hHSL77 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hJMUSIC60 596 1 3 4 998 5510575